Power Rangers meets Thomas the Tank Engine in the most unhinged train heist ever committed to film.
Taking place between episodes 38 and 39 of the Tomica Hero: Rescue Force television series, the film features Doktor Madu joining forces with the Neo Thera to hijack the super express train Mach Train with his Metal Train, intending to use the Mach Train in the most Super-Disaster ever.
Practical Effects
Giant train models smashed together with visible childlike glee
Stunts
Suit actors flinging themselves at miniature disasters
Production
78 minutes of pure toy commercial as narrative artform
Director
Itaru Era
Kenta Izuka
Hikaru Todoroki / R1
Seigo Noguchi
Kyosuke Jinrai / R2
Haruno
Rei Kozuki / R3
Emi Hasegawa
Juri Shiraki / R4
Hiroaki Iwanaga
Eiji Ishiguro / R5
Yu Hayami
Captain General
Keiichi Wada
Obuchi / Daen (voice)
Nao Nagasawa
Kirara Amamiya
Hiroshi Fujioka
Reiji Osakabe / R0
Ryota Yamasato
Doktor Madu / Mataro Madono
HIRO
Sica (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film exists solely because the Tomica toy line needed a train-based promotional boost, and cinema was the sacrifice.
Rescue Force represents the underrated 'rescue hero' subgenre of tokusatsu—less punching, more civic infrastructure worship.
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